Title Africa and the Indian Ocean world from early times to circa 1900 / Gwyn Campbell, McGill University, Montréal

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 305 pages) : illustrations, maps Series New approaches to African history ; [15] New approaches to African history ; 15. Contents Introduction -- Africa in the making of an IOW global economy -- Indian Ocean Africa in the first great upswing in the Indian Ocean World global economy, 300 BCE to 300 CE -- Economic instability, ca. 300 to 900 CE -- The second great boom in the IOW global economy ca. 850 to 1250 and its impact in northern IOA -- Southern IOA and the second upsurge in the IOW global economy -- Uncertainties and European intrusion: the IOW global economy, 1300 to 1830 -- The European impact in Indian Ocean Africa, 1500 to 1830 -- The international economy and Indian Ocean Africa -- Indigenous modernisation in Indian Ocean Africa: Egypt, Imerina, and Ethiopia -- The scramble for Indian Ocean Africa -- Africa and slavery in the Indian Ocean World Summary The history of Africa's historical relationship with the rest of the Indian Ocean world is one of a vibrant exchange that included commodities, people, flora and fauna, ideas, technologies and disease. This connection with the rest of the Indian Ocean world, a macro-region running from Eastern Africa, through the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia to East Asia, was also one heavily influenced by environmental factors. In presenting this rich and varied history, Gwyn Campbell argues that human-environment interaction, more than great men, state formation, or imperial expansion, was the central dynamic in the history of the Indian Ocean world (IOW). Environmental factors, notably the monsoon system of winds and currents, helped lay the basis for the emergence of a sophisticated and durable IOW 'global economy' around 1,500 years before the so-called European 'Voyages of Discovery'. Through his focus on human-environment interaction as the dynamic factor underpinning historical developments, Campbell radically challenges Eurocentric paradigms, and lays the foundations for a new interpretation of IOW history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 23, 2019) Subject Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Indian Ocean Region -- History Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- Indian Ocean Region -- History Human ecology -- Indian Ocean Region Trade routes -- Indian Ocean Region Economic history Human beings -- Effect of climate on Human beings -- Effect of environment on Human ecology International economic relations Trade routes SUBJECT Indian Coast (Africa) -- Foreign economic relations -- Indian Ocean Region Indian Ocean Region -- Foreign economic relations -- Indian Coast (Africa) Indian Coast (Africa) -- Economic conditions -- History Indian Ocean Region -- Economic conditions -- History Indian Coast (Africa) -- Economic conditions Indian Ocean Region -- Economic conditions Subject Africa -- Indian Coast Indian Ocean Region Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139028769 1139028766

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